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<h3 class="section" id="Defining-the-Output-Assembler-Language"><span>18.20 Defining the Output Assembler Language<a class="copiable-link" href="#Defining-the-Output-Assembler-Language"> &para;</a></span></h3>

<p>This section describes macros whose principal purpose is to describe how
to write instructions in assembler language&mdash;rather than what the
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